This seminar will be held online on Zoom. You can register here.

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In this month's seminar, we will launch our recent edited volume Hybridity, Conflict, and the Global Politics of Cybersecurity, edited by Fabio Cristiano and Bibi van den Berg, with short presentation with three of the chapter authors: Giovanni De Gregorio on his and Roxana Radu's chapter "The New Era of Internet Governance: Technical Fragmentation and Digital Sovereignty Entanglements", Amy Ertan on her chapter "The Challenge Associated with AI's Military Innovation: Examining Practitioner Perspectives in the United Kingdom", and Arindrajit Basu on his and Karthik Nachiappan's chapter "Will India Negotiate? The Politics of Multilateral Engagement for Fostering Responsible State Behaviour in Cyberspace".

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About the book

Cyberspace has become the ultimate frontier and central issue of international conflict, geopolitical competition, and security. Emerging threats and technologies continuously challenge the prospect of an open, secure, and free cyberspace. Additionally, the rising influence of technology on society and culture increasingly pushes international diplomacy to establish responsible state behavior in cyberspace and internet governance against the backdrop of fragmentation and polarization. In this context, novel normative practices and actors are emerging both inside and outside the conventional sites of international diplomacy and global governance.

In Hybridity, Conflict, and the Global Politics of Cybersecurity, Fabio Cristiano and Bibi van den Berg explore the hybridity and conflict inherent to these recent processes of remodulation of the global politics of cybersecurity by analyzing emerging normative practices, threats and technologies, and actors. Through this comprehensive analysis, this edited volume ultimately sheds light on the problematic technical logic of emergence that informs the global politics of cybersecurity and delineates novel normative paths for cyberspace moving forward.